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Wh'Y' Not Toastmasters meets fourth Saturday
These groups meet regularly. The Bet Aviv Camera Club — Fourth Monday, 7:30 p.m. Learn about the many facets of photography. Meetings appeal to photographers of all skill and experience levels. Oakland Mills Meeting House, in Columbia. 410-992-...Tags: Libertarian Party, Fort Meade (military base), Ellicott City, Arts, Howard County
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Savage/North Laurel
Flea market The Howard County NAACP Youth Council sponsors a spring flea market and yard sale beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday, May 25, at Ridgely's Run Community Center, 8400 Mission Road in Jessup. Antiques, jewelry, toys, clothing, household items, sports...Tags: Music, Yoga, Music Theater, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Columbia knitting group meets third Mondays
These groups meet regularly. Adams, Hanna, Moore Memorial Post 156, American Legion — Third Thursday, 7 p.m. VFW Post 7472, 4225 VFW Lane, Ellicott City. Edward A. Hall, commander, Post 156, ehall@telecomxchange.com or 410-340-7892; John Horan,...Tags: American Legion, Ellicott City, Howard County, Panera Bread Company
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Mfume named chair of Morgan State board, signals Wilson will stay
Kweisi Mfume was named the new chair of Morgan State University's Board of Regents on Tuesday, more than three months after his predecessor was ousted amid a public battle over university leadership. Mfume quickly signaled that university President David...
Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Colleges and Universities, Morgan State University, Kweisi Mfume
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City to give $100K to family of man killed by police
Baltimore officials plan to give $100,000 to the family of man shot and killed by police in a North Baltimore alley four years ago. The city spending panel, the Board of Estimates, is expected on Wednesday to approve the payment to settle a multimillion-...
Tags: Justice System, Public Officials, Shootings, Government, Sinai Hospital in Baltimore
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Isaiah 'Ike' Dixon, state delegate from Baltimore
Isaiah Dixon Jr., a jazz fan, world traveler and four-term state delegate from Baltimore City whose accomplishments included introducing a bill that made cross burnings a felony in Maryland, died of heart failure April 26 at Stella Maris Hospice in...
Tags: Music, Elections, Music Industry, Trials, National Aquarium Baltimore
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O'Malley to sign death penalty repeal today
Gov. Martin O'Malley will sign legislation Thursday morning abolishing capital punishment in Maryland -- a goal of his since he took office in 2007. The governor's approval will make Maryland the 18th state to repeal the death penalty. A throng of...
Tags: Archdiocese of Baltimore, Punishment, Martin O'Malley, Death Penalty, Basilica of the Assumption
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In Texas, black means future danger
If the state of Texas executes Duane Buck, it'll be because he is black. Well, mainly it will be because in 1995, he shot his ex-girlfriend, Debra Gardner, and her friend, Kenneth Butler, to death at Gardner's Houston home, and also wounded his own...
Tags: The New York Times, Prosecution, Punishment, Defendants, Witnesses
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Death penalty supporters launch petition drive
One day after Gov. Martin O'Malley signed legislation to abolish capital punishment in Maryland, death penalty supporters said Friday they will launch a petition drive to give voters the opportunity to overturn the new law. At a news conference,...
Tags: Scott Shellenberger, Punishment, Death Penalty, Christianity, Same-Sex Marriage
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O'Malley signs death penalty repeal
Surrounded by religious leaders, civil rights activists and others who have fought for years to stop executions in Maryland, Gov. Martin O'Malley signed legislation Thursday repealing the state's death penalty. Unless the law is overturned in a...
Tags: Punishment, Scott Shellenberger, Death Penalty, Migration, Voting
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Fire department to cut diversity-minded recruitment division
A Baltimore Fire Department division developed to increase recruitment among black city residents and combat racial tensions within the department's ranks is set to be eliminated in a planned round of budget cutbacks. The move has caused concerns...
Tags: Minority Groups, Budgets and Budgeting, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Racism, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Rand Paul gets schooled at Howard
Rand Paul did just fine at Howard University, thank you very much. Or at least, that's how he remembers it. Mr. Paul, GOP senator from Kentucky, told the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday that his recent visit to Howard didn't go so bad at all....
Tags: Republican Party, Teaching and Learning, Students, Elections, Coca-Cola Co.
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